Inside Boris and Carrie Johnson’s secret wedding party
06.08.2022 - 17:09
/ msn.com
Prime Minister’s wedding celebration, Sweet Caroline had been chosen for the first dance as a romantic tribute to Caroline Johnson, better known as Carrie – but her husband seemed to think he was at an England football match, where the song has become a fan favourite. His dad-dancing at the couple’s wedding celebration last weekend was more “let’s all have a disco”, as sports crowds chant, than “how can I hurt when holding you”, in the words of Neil Diamond’s song.
The moment, however, was entirely in keeping with the eccentricity of the whole event, held in the middle of a field where guests had no escape from the speeches, the South African street food or the bitching about Rishi Sunak. It featured slut-drops, congas, rum punch, hay bales, a steel band and Jacob Rees-Mogg, but without an actual wedding for the guests to attend, it was an event that appeared not to know quite what it was trying to be.
About 200 people were invited to the bash, held more than a year after the couple married in a Catholic ceremony at Westminster Cathedral. However, when they got to the open-sided marquee in the Cotswolds from around 5.
30pm last Saturday, there was precious little for them to do. The event was supposed to have taken place at Chequers, the Prime Minister’s weekend retreat in Buckinghamshire, where guests could have breathed in the history of a house where presidents, prime ministers and monarchs have come and gone for more than a century.
But following criticism of the plan, the party was switched at the last minute to the Daylesford House estate of Tory donor Lord Bamford, in Gloucestershire, which might have explained the slightly threadbare nature of the arrangements. A video of the happy couple’s first dance, published
.